FTF events
A blueprint to scale textile-to-textile recycling in the EU: T-REX Project Closing Webinar
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 16:30 EET.
The T-REX Project, led by Professor Kirsi Niinim盲ki, is ending. Please join the final webinar, hosted by Fashion for Good. Hear directly from the consortium partners as they share:
鉁 Key insights from the techno-economic assessment and summary LCA
鉁 Technical guidance for designers
鉁 How the project explored the challenges of recycling post-consumer textile waste, from collecting household end-of-use textiles to transforming polyester, polyamide 6, and cellulosic materials into new garments.
Science Meets Practice: The Future of Fashion and Textiles
WEBINAR
Date: 28.4.2025
Time: 9-10
The fashion and textile industry is facing serious challenges. Headlines are filled with stories of ultra-fast fashion, soaring textile waste, and the industry鈥檚 urgent need for sustainable solutions. Meanwhile, pioneering research and textile innovations from Finland and beyond are driving a more sustainable future for fashion. Curious to learn more? 馃憢 Join us for the first Science Meets Practice webinar of the year, where top experts from Aalto University 鈥 Professor Kirsi Niinimaki and researcher Michael Hummel 鈥 will explore the industry's biggest challenges and the cutting-edge solutions that could change fashion for the better.
Register at the latest by 28 April at 8.30.
鈥淔ostering behaviour change through citizen engagement activities鈥 Webinar
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 10:00 EET.
The webinar discusses how citizen engagement in the textile and fashion industry can drive real change in consumer behaviour. It explores how participatory initiatives can foster more sustainable habits, drawing on key findings from the Textile Recycling Excellence (T-REX) project.
Part of the 鈥淩eflect, Slow Down, Gather鈥 series, co-organized by the F茅d茅ration de la Mode Circulaire and 's Institute for ethical fashion and ecological consumption.
Repair Talks: Acts of use and care in Fashion
Spring 2025
Aalto Repair and Rewear is excited to invite you to Repair Talks: Acts of Care and Use in Fashion, a series of talks that are hosting presentations and discussions with activists and frontrunners that are bringing sustainability in fashion forward, putting special emphasis on the use and care phase of garments.
Aalto Repair and Rewear is an initiative founded by Thekla Wei脽kopf and Regina Kazanjian, two students from Creative Sustainability. The project is funded by the Sustainability Action Booster, a grant for Aalto students dedicated to all types of projects promoting sustainability. Over the past year, we have been hosting regular mending workshops that have been met with great excitement, and we are proud to say that we have grown a big community within Aalto that encourages the sustainability and longevity of textiles.
For Repair talks: Acts of use and care in fashion, we are honoured to be able to host guest speakers including Kaisa Rissanen from , Ida Urmas from , Maria Manninen from and , a mending influencer. The talks are hosted in collaboration with (EU Horizon 鈥楾extile Recycling Excellence project鈥), which is navigated and supervised by Professor Kirsi Niinim盲ki.
The talks will all be about 40 minutes long and include a Q&A Session after. We kindly ask you to register so we can better plan and anticipate.
We are really excited to see you there!
Interrupting Design: Conversations design was, is and should be having.
A panel discussion by professors of the Department of Design, Aalto University, about the past, present and future of design.
Panelists will share their perspectives about what design is and where it is headed and then reflect, discuss and provocate each other and the audience on how design practice, research and education can and should evolve in the times of flux.鈥
鈥╓丑别苍
27.2.2025 17:00 鈥 19:00
Where
Marsio, Otakaari 2, 02150 Espoo
The event is free, but requires registration.
SCALES in Textiles
April 8-10, 2025
A joint conference by ArcInTex network and Beyond e-Textiles project (Nordic network on smart light-conversion textiles beyond electric circuits)
SCALES in Textiles is a three-day conference hosted by Aalto University, bringing together the ArcInTex network and the Beyond e-Textiles project. The event will be held in person from April 8鈥10, 2025, in Espoo, Finland.
This conference invites participants to explore the multiple scales inherent in textile innovation - whether through physical scales, from nanomaterial manipulation and fiber development to the integration of textiles into wearable technologies and extensive IoT systems, or through temporal scales, as we rethink material life cycles and longevity. It also challenges us to reflect on the balance within our research choices: how we weigh and prioritize competing needs, and how we bring together perspectives that range from the generalisable to the deeply personal.
Earth Logic fashion and design: How can we organise our understanding of design for maximum agency to make urgent change?
Lectures and seminars
Dr. Tham will reflect and propose how metadesign and the perspective of Earth Logic can open up new thought and action spaces enabling every one in every place to make a difference.
This talk by Mathilda Tham (PhD) is part of the Design Interrupted talk series organized by the Department of Design.
When
17.10.2024, 17:00 鈥 19:00
Where
Marsio, Otakaari 2, 02150 Espoo
The event is free, but requires registration.
More will follow: Design Interrupted: /en/design-interrupted
Designs for Cooler Planet - Exhibition 2024
6 Sep 鈥 3 Oct 2024
Fashion/Textile FUTURES researchers are exhibiting in Designs for Cooler Planet exhibition in new Marsio building in Otaniemi until 3rd October. The theme for the exhibition is Makers of the Impossible. The exhibition showcases works from projects Biocolours - Sustainable colour aesthetics, Bioeconomy 2.0, Magnificient materials and Beyond e-Textiles
Wardrobe confidence: Creative strategies for wearing what you own
Julia Valle-Noronha and Elina M盲盲tt盲nen are hosting a workshop as part of the Design for Cooler Planet festival. This workshop provides the participants with a playful approach to learning to be more creative with the clothing they already own.
When
10.9.2024 17:00 鈥 18:30
Where
Room F101 (痴盲谤别 lobby)
Event language(s)
English
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Designing with Biocolours exhibition
June 7-15, 痴盲谤别 Building, Mon-Fri 8-20, Saturday 9-17, Sunday closed
School of Art, Design and Architecture, 痴盲谤别 building, Aalto University, Otaniementie 14, Espoo
Curated by Associate Professor Kirsi Niinim盲ki, Biocolour project
Designing with biocolours exhibition showcases different ways to work, research and experiment with bio-based colours in a design context.
Textile designer and doctoral researcher Leonardo Hidalgo is studying how natural dyeing processes involve a set of relations between dyers and the environment. 鈥淒uring the dyeing process, colours emerge from the correspondence between dyers, the dyeing materials and the environment.鈥
Designer and doctoral researcher Noora Yau is working with structural colour. 鈥淪tructural colour based on cellulose nanocrystals (CNC SC) can be used to create shiny and iridescent colour, using plant biomass, such as wood.鈥
Ingvill Fossheim is a costume designer and a researcher who explores the potential of using bio-based colours in connection to theatre performance and bodily aspects. 鈥淭he colours will slowly evolve during the lifecycle of the performance, through dyeing and re-dyeing.鈥
Fashion designer Sofia Ilmonen has been designing experimental fashion collection, which is based on alternative colour aesthetics. In this collection colours will fade exposing new nuances and shades. In connection to this approach consumers鈥 readiness to accept this kind of sustainable aesthetics has been studied.
Actionable stories 鈥 Why do I upcycle/recycle?
Workshop activity at the Heureka Science Center in Vantaa, Finland
From 10 June until 16 August, Aalto University will be offering an interactive, hands-on workshop activity at the Heureka Science Center in Vantaa, Finland as part of their new exhibition 鈥楧RESSCODE: Sustainable鈥.
鈥楢ctionable stories - Why do I upcycle/recycle?鈥 is one of the planned citizen engagement activities for the T-REX project. The workshop will dive into the realm of end-of-life garments and explore the end (and a fresh start) of the garment鈥檚 journey. Participants will get to decide which garments deserve a second life through upcycling and which ones are ready to be recycled, all while creating their own story tags for the garments. Through this, they can make their reflective stories part of the display that others can learn from.
The workshop is designed by doctoral researcher Elina Lewe and designer/research associate Jamila Juzer Siamwalla.
Fashion Reimagined screening & panel discussion
Tuesday April 23rd, 2024, Cinema Orion, 7:30 PM EET.
Sustainable fashion collective Seams Helsinki presents 鈥滷ashion Reimagined鈥, a movie by Becky Hutner as part of Fashion Revolution Week 2024. After the screening, a panel discussion with professionals on the sustainable fashion field + Q&As will take place. Speakers: Julia Valle Noronha, Anna Semi, Linda Turunen and Pukhraj Ranjan. Proudly sponsored by the T-REX Project & Aalto University.
鈥淔ashion Reimagined" takes viewers on a captivating journey over three years, from the bustling runways of London Fashion Week to the serene landscapes of a Uruguayan sheep farm. Through a compelling narrative, the film explores the intersections of fashion, sustainability, and global supply chains, offering insight into the transformative power of fashion-making that believes that change is possible.
Spring Cleaning Clothing Exchange & Workshops
Tuesday April 23rd - Friday May 3rd, 2024
A clothing exchange and workshop series organised as part of citizen engagement activities for the EU project Textile Recycling Excellence (T-REX), coinciding with the 10th international Fashion Revolution Week. Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Kirsi Niinim盲ki and doctoral researcher Kasia Gorniak from the Fashion/Textile Futures research group, with workshops facilitated by Aalto students, staff and alumni. Workshops are free to attend but registration is necessary.
Programme and registration
Webinar: Data & digital solutions for scaling circularity in the fashion industry
Wednesday, Nov 29, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM EET.
Textile Recycling Excellence and SCIRT Project are organizing the 2nd open-source webinar of a series to help navigate the transformations taking place in the European textile landscape and highlight how relationships between different players can be nurtured and strengthened to move towards an effective circular supply chain. The webinars are streamed live on LinkedIn and available to join and revisit for free.
Moderated by Kirsi Niinimaki, Associate Professor in Design, Research team leader of Fashion/Textile Futures Aalto University.
Speakers:
Osterwalder (SCIRT) is co-Founder of circular.fashion and is an expert in the circular economy, textile sorting and Digital Product Passports.
Jyotsna Gopinath (T-REX Project) is an Innovation Analyst at Fashion for Good within the End of Use team, overseeing footwear recycling and chemical recycling of textiles.
Damien Saumureau (SCIRT) is the circularity projects leader working on activewear for water related sports at Decathlon
Herv茅 d'Halluin (SCIRT) is the leader RFID United & Referent Interactive Sport Products at Decathlon
Textile & Fashion forum
Thursday-Friday, 26.-27.10.2023
Pikku-Finlandia, Karamzininranta 4, 00100 Helsinki
Associate Professor Kirsi Niinim盲ki will present the topic of Circular Business Models. The seminar is organised by Finnish Textile and Fashion Association together with Euratex.
Out of Fashion 鈥 Aalto LASER Talks
Thursday 30.11.2023 16:00 鈥 18:30
Future visions and concrete steps towards the sufficiency paradigm in fashion.
Biocolours book at the Helsinki book fair
Friday, 27.10.2023 11:30 鈥 12:00
The book's second editor, professor Kirsi Niinim盲ki and doctoral student Noora Yau discuss the latest research in bio-based dyes, the use of plants and fungi, and the relationship between man and nature in general.
TIETEEN P脛IV脛T 2023
Teknologia ja innovaatiot / Kiertotalous ja tekstiilit
P盲iv盲: Torstai 12.1.
Aika: 15.00 - 16.45
Paikka: PIII, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3
Suoratoisto: Tilaisuus kuvataan suorana verkkoon
Puheenjohtaja: professori Kirsi Niinim盲ki (Aalto-yliopisto)
Sessiossa keskustellaan kiertotalouteen siirtymisest盲. Mit盲 se tarkoittaa tekstiilisektorilla? Miten tekstiilij盲te saadaan tehokkaimmin uudelleen k盲ytt枚枚n ja mit盲 teknologioita tarvitaan? Ent盲 mit盲 kiertotalous tarkoittaa yritysten tai koko yhteiskunnan n盲k枚kulmasta?
Invitation 鈥 DIALOGUES - Creating New Textile Futures Exhibition
Opening 28.11.2022 17:00-19:00
Join us for the opening reception at Dipoli Gallery from 17:00-19:00 on Monday, November 28th. Welcome words by professors Maarit Salolainen and Kirsi Niinim盲ki.
We are happy to announce and warmly welcome you to 鈥楧IALOGUES - Creating New Textile Futures鈥, an exhibition of creative design work, artistic exploration, material solutions and design pedagogy showcasing the multitude of textile work spanning over the different schools in Aalto University. Visit the exhibition in Dipoli Gallery, Aalto University from November 28, 2022 to February 8, 2023.
From Data to Action 鈥 Circular Design Network Project Closing Event 10.11.2022
Fashion/Textile FUTURES has been involved in the research done in the and given expertise in the textile group.
Circular Design Network Project Closing Event
10th November 2022, from 12:00 to 15:30 Live at Korjaamo, Helsinki and
Data is widely seen as an enabler for the future circular economy. Data is needed to design sustainable solutions and value chains, from raw materials management to end users in a circular economy. Data can be used to extend the lifetime of products, replace tangible products with services, create a resource-based business, and boost the reuse of materials. Circular Design Network Project will share insights to data-enabled circular battery, textile and agrifood value chains. Join us for top keynotes and to learn about the project results. Utilize this opportunity to network with the key stakeholders on data for circularity!
BioColour Event: Tulevaisuuden v盲ri ja v盲ritulevaisuudet 3.11.2022
(Event in Finnish)
BioColour projekti j盲rjest盲盲 keskustelutilaisuuden. Tervetuloa kuuntelemaan ja keskustelemaan v盲reist盲 鈥 siit盲, kuka m盲盲ritt盲盲 miss盲 v盲reiss盲 kuljemme ja mit盲 v盲riaineita k盲yt盲mme. Millaisia muita v盲ritulevaisuuksia voisi olla?
Mukana:
Riikka R盲is盲nen, Helsingin yliopisto
Ana Nuutinen, Lapin yliopisto
Kirsi Niinim盲ki, Aalto Yliopisto
P盲ivi Laaksonen, HAMK
Maija Arela, Arela Studio, Intercolor
Tiedekulma Think Lounge torstaina 3.11.2022 klo 16-18
(Yliopistonkatu 4, Helsinki, 2. kerros)
Tilaisuutta voi seurata my枚s et盲n盲
Data-driven business and design -webinar 23.9.2021
Data-driven business and design -webinar will focus on how data can enable and enhance a circular economy in the textile and fashion industry. Data can be used to better control the material flows through the system, to increase the transparency in the supply chain and to better design the lifetime of the garments as well as enhance the material circulation. Through data it is possible to create new design and business strategies for sustainable textile and fashion. Webinar is organised in collaboration with , and projects.
Defence of doctoral thesis in the field of design, MA Essi Karell
The title of the thesis is Closing the Loop through Clothing Design: Wishful Thinking or Achievable Practice?
ONLINE: Fashionable sustainability? workshop
An interactive workshop that aims to structure the multifaceted sustainability concept, especially in the fashion and textile industry.
ONLINE: Biotech Talks I 鈥 NewSilk 2020
'Designing materials on molecular level 鈥 what does it mean for researchers, designers - and for the globe?鈥
Shimmering Wood by Structural Colour Studio
Nature鈥檚 brightest colours 鈥 like those found in peacock feathers or butterfly wings 鈥 are created through microscopically small nanostructures.
Solving the systemic challenges in textile and fashion industry
We need systemic and fundamental changes in the textile and fashion industry鈥檚 business model, including a deceleration of manufacturing and the introduction of sustainable practices throughout the supply chain; decreasing clothing purchases and increasing garment lifetimes.
Webinaari: Hiilineutraali tekstiiliteollisuus - tulevaisuutta vai utopiaa?
suomeksi / in Finnish
Milloin? 20. toukokuuta 2020, 13:00 - 15:00
惭颈蝉蝉盲? Zoom
Webinaarin j盲rjest盲v盲t strategisen tutkimuksen neuvoston rahoittamat hankkeet 鈥 V盲ripaletti biopohjaisille v盲riaineille ja pigmenteille sek盲 FINIX 鈥 Kest盲v盲t tekstiilisysteemit.
Tekstiiliteollisuus on yksi maailman saastuttavimpia teollisuudenaloja ja muotiteollisuus tuottaa yksin kymmenesosan maailman hiilidioksidip盲盲st枚ist盲. Mit盲 vaikutuksia tekstiilien tuotannon ja elinkaaren eri vaiheilla on niiden hiilijalanj盲lkeen ja mink盲laisilla ratkaisuilla hiilidioksidip盲盲st枚j盲 voisi pienent盲盲? Onko tekstiiliteollisuuden hiilineutraalimpi tulevaisuus mahdollinen ja mit盲 muutoksia se vaatii toteutuakseen? Tervetuloa kuulemaan asiantuntijoiden puheenvuoroja ja keskustelemaan aiheesta!
Tilaisuuden ohjelma
Vaatteen hiilijalanj盲lki ja sen pienent盲minen designin avulla, Kirsi Niinim盲ki, Aalto-yliopisto, FINIX & BioColour
Tekstiilien kierron edist盲minen, Helena Dahlbo, Syke, FINIX
V盲rj盲ysteollisuuden ymp盲rist枚vaikutukset, Riikka R盲is盲nen, Helsingin yliopisto, BioColour
Materiaalitehokkaasti oljesta tekstiilikuituja Fortumin Bio2X -hankkeessa, Heli Antila, Fortum
V盲rikasvituotannon mahdollisuudet hiilen sitomisessa, Marjo Keskitalo, Luke, BioColour
Suomalaisen tekstiilialan hiilijalanj盲lki, Satumaija M盲ki, Suomen Tekstiili ja Muoti ry
Webinaari j盲rjestet盲盲n Zoom-verkkoalustalla. Saat osallistumislinkin s盲hk枚postiisi ilmoittautumalla t盲st盲:
Tilaisuus on avoin ja maksuton eik盲 osallistujam盲盲r盲盲 ole rajoitettu.Tilaisuuden tallenne tulee j盲lkik盲teen n盲ht盲v盲ksi my枚s BioColour- ja FINIX-hankkeiden Youtube-kanaville.
Avajaisseminaari: FINIX 鈥 kest盲v盲t tekstiilisysteemit
suomeksi / in Finnish
Milloin? 23. maaliskuuta 2020, 13:00 - 15:15
惭颈蝉蝉盲? /
FINIXin taustalla on tarve muuttaa globaali resursseja tuhlaava tekstiilij盲rjestelm盲 kest盲v盲n kehityksen periaatteiden mukaiseksi ja halu yhdist盲盲 suomalainen osaaminen ja yritykset my枚s perinteisen tekstiilialan ulkopuolelta ratkaisemaan t盲t盲 haastetta. Hanke alkoi syksyll盲 2019, ja saimme heti runsaasti tiedusteluja yhteisty枚mahdollisuuksista. Osana FINIXi盲 tullaan j盲rjest盲m盲盲n sek盲 avoimia ty枚pajoja tutkimusteemojen ymp盲rill盲 ett盲 tekem盲盲n r盲盲t盲l枚ityj盲 yhteisty枚hankkeita. Ensimm盲isen seminaarin tavoite on luoda pohja muotoutuvalle ekosysteemille ja yhteisty枚lle esittelem盲ll盲 keskeiset tutkimusteemat ja keskustelemalla yritysten haasteista kiertotalouteen siirtymisess盲.
Tilaisuuden ohjelma
13:00 FINIX revolution! Minna Halme
13:10 Tulevaisuuden kest盲v盲 tekstiilisysteemi, Samuli Patala
13:30 Muoti kiertotaloudessa, Kirsi Niinim盲ki
14:00 Man-made cellulose fibres in the future, Herbert Sixta (in English)
14:30 Tekstiilien j盲ljitett盲vyys ja tunnistaminen, Hannu Tanner
15:00 Loppusanat, Minna Halme
P盲盲set mukaan avaamalla YouTube-kanavan Finixrevolution:
Seminaaria voi seurata my枚s Facebook Livess盲:
Lis盲tietoa projektista:
Defense in the field of Design: MA Anja-Lisa Hirscher
When Skillful Participation Becomes Design: Making clothes together
A Stitch in Time 鈥 Free clothes repair event
Bring along clothes in need of repair and come mend them at the Learning Center.
Seminar: Law for the Circular Economy
When? December 9, 2019, 10:00 - 16:30
Where? University of Lapland, Yliopistonkatu 8, 96101 Rovaniemi
The Law for the Circular Economy seminar will revolve around the role of law in the circular economy, with particular emphasis on two important steps of the product鈥檚 life cycle, namely regulating the supply-chain and regulating repairing and sharing activities. These topics will be explored from the perspective of both policy and law. The academic discourse will be complemented by real-life company cases, where focus will be posed especially on the fashion industry. Doctoral Candidate Essi Karell from FTF will give a talk on Fashion Supply Chains and Circular Economy.
Full seminar programme and registration available at the official seminar .
Defence in the Field of Design: MPhil Marium Durrani
This study primarily intends to understand, observe and illustrate an alternative conceptualization, by proposing to examine mending as a sociomaterial practice
BioColour Open for All Kick-Off
When? November 11, 2019, 15:00-17:00
Where? University of Helsinki Think Corner, Think Lounge, 2nd floor, Yliopistonkatu 4
is a research project funded by Strategic Research Council for years 2019鈥2025 and it investigates biocolourants and their applications in textiles, coatings and packages.
See a blog post of the BioColour Kick-Off (in Finnish).
Textiles Tomorrow Summit
Textiles Tomorrow Summit brings together an international network of textile educators to discuss the future of textiles and share their knowledge and expertise. Aalto University is proud to host the second textile education conference initiated by Lidewij Edelkoort in 2018 at The New School/Parsons, New York. This year our aim is to continue sharing ideas as a community and to take further steps to build bridges between textile academics and professionals. The summit provides a versatile platform for learning and discussing topics of novel sustainable textile materials, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and artistic and technical expertise. KEYNOTES: Lidewij Edelkoort and Kirsi Niinim盲ki TALKS: Michael Hummel, Helena Hyv枚nen, Pirjo K盲盲ri盲inen, Harri Puputti and Maarit Salolainen PARALLEL SESSIONS: Educational and Design Talks, Studio Visits and Presentations EXHIBITIONS: 痴盲谤别 Building, Learning Center and Undergraduate Centre BOOK PRESENTATION: Interwoven 鈥 Exploring Materials and Structures by Maarit Salolainen
Defence in the field of Design: MA Julia Valle Noronha
"Becoming with Clothes" explores paths to more active relationships between people and the things they wear. It offers reflections on a matter that touches us all: the ways humans and clothes interact.
New Silk - What can we learn from spiders?
How to produce new types of silk-like materials in the context of synthetic biology
Natural Indigo: New Luxury from Northern Fields
Crops4Luxury (PeltoLuksus) project studied special crops that could replace synthetic textile dyes sustainably and ethically
Redesigning Production Systems - New Luxury from Biodiversity
Final seminar of Crops4Luxury project, September 5, 2019
World Circular Economy Forum 鈥 Aalto University side event
Combating climate change by circular economy and systemic change: closing the material loops and creating new business possibilities
DON'T SHOP, SWAP!
Swapping event, part of the Fashion Revolution Week 2019
Aalto ARTS Books Talks
When? February 5, 2019, 16:00-17:00.
Where? Aalto University Shop, Otaniementie 12, Espoo
Aalto ARTS Books will officially launch professor Kirsi Niinim盲ki鈥檚 book 'Sustainable Fashion in a Circular Economy'. In the event Niinim盲ki and doctoral candidate Essi Karell will be discussing the topic from various perspectives.
PDF (open access) and hard copy available at
Defence in the field of Design: MFA Namkyu Chun
This doctoral dissertation Re(dis)covering Fashion Designers: Interweaving Dressmaking and Placemaking was inspired by design thinking discourses in design research that have explored the practice of designers and encouraged them to question the boundaries of design as a profession.
Research Caf茅 on Materials
When? 11 October & 27 November 2018, 13:00 鈥 16:00
Where? Mordor / Otakaari 5
F/T Futures warmly welcomes you to the Research Caf茅 events that invite researchers from the different schools of Aalto University to share their latest insights and learn new perspectives related to materials research at Aalto.
The events are organized by Aalto University Research and Innovation Services and Materials Platform, with F/T Futures actively participating in the planning. In the first event Kirsi Niinim盲ki and Pirjo K盲盲ri盲inen will briefly introduce some insights into circular economy and multidisciplinary material research.
The purpose of these events is twofold: to introduce new perspectives through scholarly discussions; and to create possibilities for multidisciplinary encounters and for recognizing common research interests among the participants, potentially leading into new joint projects.
There will be two Research Caf茅 events this autumn: The first one serves as an introduction and opens the discussion that will be deepened in the latter event. The first event consists of two parts: First, researchers and research groups will introduce variety of perspectives into materials research that will then initiate the participants into discussion.
More information: emmi.pouta at aalto.fi & outi.hagg at aalto.fi
Open lecture by Anna-Mari Almila
The multiple dimensions of 鈥榗omfort鈥 in dress: rethinking bodies, garments and environments
When? Monday, 19 March 2018, 12:00-13:00
Where? Aalto ARTS Arabia campus, Room 6088
Dr Anna-Mari Almila is Research Fellow in Sociology of Fashion at London College of Fashion, UAL. She writes in the fields of cultural, global and historical sociology, and her topics include the historical/political construction of urban spaces; the materiality of dressed bodies and their environments; fashion globalization; history of fashion studies; and gendered wine mediation and consumption. She is the author of Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities (2018 in press, I.B. Tauris), and the editor of The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices (2017) and The Sage Handbook to Cultural Sociology (2016). Dr Almila is a visiting researcher in FTF Fashion/Textile Futures research group during March-May 2018 (Host Professor Niinim盲ki).
DON'T SHOP, SWAP!
When? Monday, 12 March 2018, 12:00-15:00
Where? Aalto ARTS Arabia campus, ground floor (near Kipsari鈥檚 entrance).
F/T Futures is hosting the second clothing swap event for the upcoming spring season. It鈥檚 to encourage sustainable consumption practice. It鈥檚 a free event. Feel free to join us!
Contact: manuel.ariasbarrantes(at)aalto.fi
DON'T SHOP, SWAP!
When? Monday, 27 November 2017, 16:00-19:00
Where? Aalto ARTS Arabia campus, 8th floor
F/T Futures research group organizes a public event to encourage the sustainable consumption practice in fashion.
Contact: manuel.ariasbarrantes(at)aalto.fi
Lunch Talk by Heidi H盲rk枚nen
Fashion Designs and Copyright
When? Wednesday, 1 November 2017, 12:00-13:00
Where? Aalto ARTS Arabia Campus, Room 6088
In this lunch seminar, Heidi H盲rk枚nen will talk about her ongoing PhD research project on fashion law. The specific topic of the seminar concerns fashion designs and copyright. In her talk Heidi H盲rk枚nen will ask, what are the limitations of a fashion designer鈥檚 creativity caused by copyright, when the designer鈥檚 creativity is interacting with the creativity of other fashion designers? She will also address the question of what would be the ideal level of intellectual property protection for fashion designs?
Heidi H盲rk枚nen is a PhD Candidate at University of Lapland and a visiting researcher at Aalto University. Her major is intellectual property law and in her PhD project she is concentrating on exclusive rights to fashion designs. Prior to her PhD studies, she has practiced law for three years. She also works as the president of the Finnish Fashion Law Association.
Exhibition: 10 000 years of design - Man, matter, metamorphosis
When? 12 October 2018 - 24 February 2019
Where? The National Museum of Finland / Suomen Kansallismuseo
Innovations developed in research projects and will be presented in a curated exhibition '10 000 years of design 鈥 Man, matter, metamorphosis'. The exhibition focuses on the unique development of Finnish material culture and design as a result of a specific dialogue between society and ecosystem.
More information about the exhibition .
NODUS X FTF: Sustainable fashion + new business thinking
When? 31 August 2017, 16:00 鈥 18:00
Where? Design Museum, Korkeavuorenkatu 23, Helsinki
Kirsi Niinim盲ki, leader of the F/T Futures research group, will give a talk at Design Museum together with Anniina Nurmi, sustainable fashion specialist. The talk is organized by the NODUS sustainable design research group from Aalto University.
More info:
Seminar & Book launch: Bio-Circular-Collaborative
Latest information on biomaterials and textile material recycling
When? Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 15:00-18:00
Where? Designmuseum, Auditorium, Korkeavuorenkatu 23, Helsinki
First part of the seminar presents Trash-2-Cash, which is an EU funded research project aiming to create newly regenerated fibers from pre-consumer and post-consumer waste. It鈥檚 also pioneering a whole new way of developing materials. The second part of the seminar presents the publicationLost in the Wood(s). How could Finnish natural resource, renewable biomaterials, such as cellulose, replace oil-based resources? How could we create new business and service models for society through design and collaboration? This book presents inspiring cases and stories from researchers working with biomaterials. Through these cases they suggest how a more sustainable future could be achieved.
Agenda
- Welcome words / Kirsi Niinim盲ki, Professor in Design, Team leader for Fashion/Textile FUTURES, Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture
- Presenting T2C project / Emma 脰stmark, Director Sustainable Textile Fibres, RISE Research Institute of Sweden
- Interdisciplinary collaboration for material innovation / Christian Tubito, Project Manager, Research & Innovation Material ConneXion Italy
- Waste-free future of fashion industry: The chemistry behind it / Michael Hummel, Staff Scientist, Aalto University School of Chemical Engineering
- The need of improvements in textile sorting of garments for textile-to-textile recycling / Helena Wedin, Researcher, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
- Book launch: Lost in the Wood(s), The New Biomateriality in Finland / Edited by Pirjo K盲盲ri盲inen and Liisa Tervinen / Aalto ARTS Books
Visit also 'New Biomateriality Lab' in 'Enter and Encounter' exhibition in Designmuseum. New Biomateriality Lab in the Enter and Encounter exhibition presents new Finnish biomaterials, mainly based on wood. All materials have been invented and produced in multidisciplinary research projects in Aalto University.
Organizers: Aalto University, Professor Kirsi Niinim盲ki and Designer in Residence Pirjo K盲盲ri盲inen, Fashion/Textile FUTURES research group
Contact: pirjo.kaariainen(at)aalto.fi
Seminar: Sustainable Fashion in Circular Economy
When? 11 October 2017, 9:00-17:00
Where? Aalto University, H盲meentie 135C, Helsinki, Finland
The Aalto University organises a one-day interdisciplinary seminar aiming to open new views into sustainable fashion in the circular economy context. New perspectives will be provided, how to see circularity as a design and business asset based on systems thinking in the sustainable development context. Furthermore, existing business examples will be provided. International experts will provide the newest knowledge from design for circular economy and how to use this knowledge in the fashion and textile sector. The seminar will consist of presentations, a poster session, an exhibition and networking event.Welcome to participate and construct a network of researchers, designers, practitioners and PhD students from different disciplines around fashion in a circular economy.
Agenda
- Professor Kirsi Niinim盲ki, Aalto University, Finland / Sustainable Fashion in a Circular Economy: a Need for Systemic Change
- Professor Cosette Armstrong, Oklahoma State University, USA / Digital Collaborative Clothing Consumption and the Circular Economy: A Research Agenda
- Professor Ulla R忙bild, Design School Kolding, Denmark / How to Design Garments for a Subscription Service?
- Research Associate Sara Han, Manchester Fashion Institute, UK / Circular Economy Fashion Strategies
- Chairman Rolf Heimann, Hessnatur Foundation, Germany: Sustainability as a Value Driver
- Founder and Director Ruari Mahon, Loughlin Joseph, USA / Promoting Circular Economy Practices through Consumer Engagement
- Fashion Designer Ina Budde, Design for Circularity, Germany / Design for Circularity 鈥 Product and System Innovation for a Circular Future of Fashion
- Lecturer Claudia Henninger, University of Manchester, UK / Sharing is Caring鈥 or so They Say 鈥 Exploring the Role of Ownership and Its Implications for Swapping in the Fashion Industry
- CEO Ann Runnel, Reserve Resources / The Undiscovered Business Potential of Production Leftovers within Global Fashion Supply Chains: Creating a Digitally Enhanced Circular Economy
by September 20, 2017.
Fashion/Textile Futures
The Fashion/Textile Futures research group explores new perspectives on human-centered design research. The group approaches research in the field of fashion, clothing and textiles in multi-faceted ways.
